Hello all WinCVS and cvs guru's out there. I would like to solicit your
help in solving a strange problem one of my users is having.
I have a user that has taken over a PC from another user and is using
WinCVS 1.10 to get files from a Solaris Build cvs 1.10 server. The user
attempts to login and
Kennedy, Todd writes:
>
> I have a user that has taken over a PC from another user and is using
> WinCVS 1.10 to get files from a Solaris Build cvs 1.10 server. The user
> attempts to login and receives an exit code of 0 but when he tries to
> Update Files he gets a "Not logged in error". So the
Larry Jones wrote:
> When you check out a directory, CVS remembers the CVSROOT and uses it
> for all subsequent operations in that directory. (This makes life much
> simpler for those of us who use multiple repositories.) What you need
> to do is to edit that saved CVSROOT (in CVS/Root) to
Your password isn't saved there, nor is the access method.
it just tracks the server/directories. You might already
have more info stored in your environment variables, if you
tend to use just a single single repository all of the time.
Obscurity isn't security, so if you choose to make sure
t
Hmmm - I suspect my question was misunderstood, so I shall ask it differently.
If I edit the file CVS/Root for a given working directory, are there any other
dependencies to be aware of, or is this just like setting the CVSROOT env var,
except with a higher priority?
C
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:13:32PM -0700, Mike Ayers wrote:
> If I edit the file CVS/Root for a given working directory, are there any other
> dependencies to be aware of, or is this just like setting the CVSROOT env var,
> except with a higher priority?
Yes to the latter, therefore no to
Chris Palmer writes:
>
> Your password isn't saved there, nor is the access method.
The access method is part of the root specification, so it most
certainly *is* saved in CVS/Root. You can also specify your password as
part of the root specification (although it's generally a bad idea to do
so
